A new book by Professors Stephen Brier (Urban Education) Michael Fabricant (GC/Hunter, Social Welfare) on the declining public investment in higher education is the focus of a prominent Inside Higher Ed Q&A. Read more

World War II-era social scientists provided a starting point for “shedding light on the meaning of Trumpism and what it says about the fate of American democracy,” writes Distinguished ProfessorRichard Wolin (Comparative Literature/History/Political Science) in a new Chronicle of Higher Education essay. Read more

Lawrence Cappello (Ph.D. ’16, History) explores what a Trump presidency could mean for privacy rights in a new essay for The Hill, in which he argues that no candidate since Richard Nixon has been “so fiercely committed to portraying the nation as an unsafe and lawless society.” Read more

Professor Setha M. Low (Anthropology/Environmental Psychology) has won the 2016 SANA Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America, bestowed by the Society for the Anthropology of North America. Read more

The 2016 campaign has become a “referendum on the continued dominant role of white men in society,” asserts Professor Alyson Cole (GC/Queens, Political Science) in a compelling new essay for Fortune.Read more